![Tissue dissected from a female Rocky Mountain wood tick scientific image of a blue stem amid small purple blossoms with green blossoms at bottom](/sites/nihrecord/files/styles/thumbnail_small/public/2022/March-18/cvr%20Tick_SG_cropped.jpg?itok=vuJbWpGH)
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Tissue dissected from a female Rocky Mountain wood tick collected at Lake Como, Mont, featuring many acini (magenta and blue) of the salivary glands that produce proteins to facilitate blood feeding.
Adam Nock, Jacqueline Leung, Elizabeth Fischer & Ted Hackstadt (Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID)